Millennium Development Goals

• Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day.
• Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary education.
• Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.
• Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five.
• Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality rate.
• Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.
• Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources. Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water.
• Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020.
• Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction, nationally and internationally.